maurizio cattelan's 5 horses at fondation beyeler

The italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who after his 2011 Guggenheim retrospective announced his retirement, has an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland entitled ‘Kaputt’. on view until october 6th, 2013, the exhibition recontextualizes a former piece: here, the solitary leaping taxidermied horse of cattelan’s 2007 ‘untitled’ becomes an entire suspended herd.

Francesco Bonami :’The jump [of the single 'untitled' horse] is delusional and yet heroic. the five horses transform delusion into panic and individual effort into a feverish crowd. it’s an exodus we’re witnessing, not a search for freedom. like malaparte’s horses in finland that run away from the burning wood into the frozen lake, cattelan’s horses do not seek freedom but survival.‘

 

All images © Serge Hasenböhler, Courtesy Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel

maurizio cattelan's 5 horses at fondation beyeler